Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Ross Bamford]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:27:26 +0100, Roedy Green  
<my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid> wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:04:49 -0000, gordonb.pru8x at burditt.org (Gordon
> Burditt) wrote or quoted :
>
>> I think one necessary function of email and USENET is that it should
>> allow you to SAFELY communicate with strangers or, worse, people
>> you know but do not trust at all,
>
> Yes, but with spam ANY communication with an unwanted stranger is a
> nuisance.
>
> <!-- etc -->

Roedy, I would just _love_ to see the response from the industry when you  
tell them they should dump their whole mail infrastructure, and switch  
over to a whole new system (new protocols, new security holes, new  
problems start to finish). I gather that's the gist of the suggestion, a  
new protocol with built in public key (a fine, well known, accepted term,  
IMHO it doesn't need changing) cryptography and signature support?

IMAP is in many ways better than POP3, but you would be surprised at the  
weight of an accepted standard I think.

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Ross Bamford - rosco at roscopeco.remove.co.uk